Steven Hodge is Director of the Griffith Institute for Educational Research (GIER), a large, multidisciplinary community of education researchers. Steven’s research focuses on the relationship between curriculum development and the work of educators. Much of his empirical research has been in the areas of adult and vocational education, concerned with how occupational knowledge and skills are represented in curriculum and how that curriculum is translated for learning. Steven is currently leading a team investigating the ways providers of agriculture and veterinary nursing courses translate and contextualise national standards for these occupations. Steven has served as President of the Australasian Vocational Education and Training Research Association (AVETRA), and earlier as the Early Career Researcher Representative on the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Executive. He is a founding member of the Australian Council of Deans of Education (ACDE) Vocational Education Group and currently an Editor of the International Journal of Lifelong Education. He has consulted and undertaken research for the World Bank, Mater Education, Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA), the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), Skills Impact, the Vocational Education and Training Development Centre (VDC), Deloitte, and was part of an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery project investigating higher education courses offered by vocational education providers.